P N Oaks on Hungary

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Hungary is a corruption of the Sanskrit term Shringeri, implying a

scenic, hilly region. ` S ` and ` H ` have been interchangeable. In

Osoma de Coro's preface to the Tibetan dictionary, that Hungarian

scholar observes about Sanskrit " To his own to nation he feels pride

in announcing that the study of Sanskrit will be more satisfactory

than to any other people of Europe. The Hungarians will find a fund

of information from its study, in respect to their origins, manners,

customs and language since the structure of Sanskrit ( as also other

Indian dialects ) is most analagous to the Hungarian, while it

greatly differs from the languages of Occidental Europe. As na

example of the close analogy, in the Hungarian language, instead of

prepositions, postpositions are invariably used, except with the

personal pronouns. Again, from a verbal root, without the aid of any

auxiliary verb, and by a simple syllabic addition, the several kinds

of verbs distinguished as active, passive, causal, desiderative,

frequentative, etc., are formed in Hungarian in the same manner as

Sanskrit.

 

Buddha Prastha

 

Hungary's capital, Budapest, is the Sanskrit term Buddha Prastha,

i.e., the city of Buddha. Buddha lived in the 19th century B. C., and

not in the 6th century B.C., as is currently being assumed, as

discussed in a special chapter of my book Some Blunders in Indian

Historical Research.

 

Realisation of the 1,300 year under estimation of Buddha's antiquity

assumes considerable importance in history. Because if Buddha is

assumed to have lived in the 6th centruy B. C. , the history from

that period to our own is fairly well known. And during those 2,500

years we are not aware of any authoritative, gigantic push from India

which enabled the spread of Buddha's teachings from China to Japan,

to Europe and to the Arab lands. That spread of Buddhism to at least

over half the world was achieved during those 1,300 years of Buddhism

which remain completely wiped out from history because of modern

scholar's under-estimation of the antiquity of the world.